ECIRS: an English-Chinese cross-language information-retrieval system

In this paper, we describe a World Wide Web-based information retrieval system, called ECIRS (English-Chinese Information Retrieval System). ECIRS provides a cross-language platform for helping people to retrieve Chinese information without inputting a Chinese query. The Web-based client-server architecture allows more users to access ECIRS through the Internet. Distributed Chinese document collections can be easily scaled up with daily growing information. The interactive and hyperlinked user interface can allow people to efficiently choose their favorite documents. In future studies, more evaluation tests and the construction of a larger name recognizer are needed to improve the effectiveness of ECIRS